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R115m disappears from Modise church vault [GhostMode!]

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R115m disappears from Modise church vault [GhostMode!]

R115m goes missing from Modise church vault

A fierce legal battle has broken out between the International Pentecost Holiness Church (IPHC) elders and the church’s late leader Glayton Modise’s daughter Jeanette Khumalo over access to the church’s bank accounts with funds worth over half a billion rand.

So intense is the battle that both parties – the IPHC executive council led by priest Joshua Bambo and Khumalo – have traded embezzlement accusations against each other over the disappearance of R115-million in cash from the church’s vault at its headquarters at Silo, Zuurbekom, south of Joburg.

There are also claims that at least R110-million has been siphoned from the church’s bank account since Modise died in February last year.

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News24.com | Barry Roux claims church murder accused and deceased belonged to the same faction

Advocate Barry Roux in the Westonaria Magistrate’s Court.

Ntwaagae Seleka, News24

Advocate Barry Roux claimed his clients, arrested for being behind the deadly attack at the International Pentecost Holiness Church killings, were innocent.

Roux said the deceased and his clients belonged to the same faction at the church.

Roux, representing 23 accused, claimed that the investigating officer was falsely implicating his clients.

  Popular lawyer, advocate Barry Roux, has told the Westonaria Magistrate’s Court that his clients implicated in the International Pentecost Holiness Church killings are innocent.

Roux said the deceased and his clients belonged to the same faction at the church.

The infamous church has been split into three factions involved in a succession battle for church leadership, following the death of Comforter Glayton Modise.

On 11 July, five people were shot dead outside the church’s headquarters in Zuurbekom.

Two of the deceased were set alight inside a vehicle parked outside the church.

In court on Tuesday, Roux said his team had received an affidavit why the State was opposing his clients’ bail application. He is representing 23 of the 41 accused.

“My clients say police officers made them lie on the ground and told them that they were part of the assailants. This group of my clients was coming from different areas. They said there was a shooting between security officers and people inside the church.

“What the police did was to round up whoever they got there and let them lie down and found weapons and now those weapons are allocated saying they (accused) were found with weapons. There was a shooting between security and people. I don’t know who killed those people. The accused and the deceased belong to the same group,” said Roux.

Roux said some were in a car, and subsequently got stopped and arrested.

READ | ‘Deceitful forces of darkness’ – church says armed assailants were led by a former member

Roux said one of his clients, a lawyer, was called by a security company owner and told that his employees have been arrested.

The lawyer and the owner of the security company were also arrested.

“I don’t know what the real knowledge of the investigating officer is. We are forewarning the police. The group is made of different people. One was a security guard who was called and later arrested.

The smouldering shells of two cars that were set alight outside the IPHC headquarters in Zuurbekom where five people died in a hostage drama.

“They have nothing to do with the shooting. People who were killed belonged to the same faction as the accused. Police claim there is a likelihood the accused will evade trial and are flight risk.

“The investigating officer claimed that among the accused are masterminds of the incident. Who are those masterminds? He must show us those people. We are waiting for forensic evidence and [an] identity parade. We have an attorney sitting in custody waiting for his bail application,” said Roux.

“The investigating officer said the case has attracted local and international media attention. Must the accused be sacrificed because they are newsworthy?” Roux asked.

The bail application continues.

#IPHCviolence The Westonaria Magistrate’s Court has been closed due to water shortage forcing the bail application by suspects accused of killing 5 people at the IPHC headquarters in Zuurbekom on 11July to be adjourned until Wednesday (@ntwaagae) pic.twitter.com/0qj1yDvQZo

— Team News24 (@TeamNews24) July 28, 2020

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International Pentecost Holiness Church leader Glayton Modise's wives fight over his R164 mil estate

International Pentecost Holiness Church leader Glayton Modise’s wives fight over his R164 mil estate

  A bitter legal war has broken out between the widows of the late International Pentecost Holiness Church (IPHC) leader, Glayton Modise, over the division of the clergyman’s whopping R164-million personal estate.

Modise, who led South Africa’s second-biggest church after the Zion Christian Church, died intestate (without a will) in 2016. At the time of his death, he was in a civil marriage with…

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Rival factions wage unholy war at IPHC

Rival factions wage unholy war at IPHC

There is no end in sight for the bitter rivalry between factions of the International Pentecostal Holiness church (IPHC). The infighting which started in 2016 following the demise of the church leader, Glayton Modise, has so far claimed three lives and the church’s bank accounts in Botswana have since been frozen through court. In the […]

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Prof Leepo Modise is speaking on ‘The Role of the Church in socio-economic transformation’ at the #beyersnaudecentre #Kimberley conference #theology #publictheology @beyersnaudecentre @stellenboschuni (at Florianville)